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Show THE CITIZEN 3 With the First Nighters ORPHEUM THIRD OF CENTURY CELEBRATION WEEK PROVES WORTH OF INSTITUTION. That the Orpheum playhouse has become an institution in Salt Lake, as it has in all other cities where it is established, and in many of which it has been in continuous operation for the past third of century, is being attested to, this week, in manner most delightful from the standpoint of both the management of the local house and ' of Salt Lake City. The grand opening of this anniversary week, last Wednesday night, was made a most memorable affair. It was the occasion for the appearance of Mayor Clarence Neslen, who complimented and praised the Orpheum both as a playhouse where clean, wholesome entertainment is always given and as an institution of which the whole west is proud and justly so. It was also the occasion for the presentation of one of the best rounded out and most delightfully varied vaudeville programs that has come here this season. It is a dual headliner bill, with a third act well up in the lime light. There is much in the Anatol Friedland musical revue that is both thrilling and unexpected. The singing of Neil Mack, musical director from the pit, and later from the stage, is the delightfully unexpected is the honor performance of the Friedland skit and for that matter of the entire Orpheum anniversary show. Mr. Mack sings in pleasing high tenor, has wonderful control and infinite range. He displaces Mr. Friedland, who contracted a severe cold on the trip to Salt Lake. Macks singing of Friedlands latest from the song, Dont Say Good-Bypit was a rare treat and he was compelled to repeat at each performance. Friedlands skit is very girly. They can sing and dance like the sprites they' are. Miss Lillian Akers, ballet dancer, gives a short interpretation of this swift and fancy foot and toe work; Lucile Fields is the prima donna and sings the heavy leads. Viole Weller, soubrette; Verna Velmar, violinist, and Edna Hyatt, specialty dancer, all contributed to the great success attained. The terpsichorean stunt headed by Beth Beri, who is a California contribution to Big Time, is the second headliner of the program. Miss Beri is assisted by Talbot Kenny and Paul ONeill, both clever dancers and fine vocalists. Miss Beri is a dancing demon. She has the charm, the verve, the finesse, the youth and beauty to match her dancing. The trio stepped and sang their way to appreciation in a maner that indicated much effort had been expended to perfect the really difficult turn. It was a revelation as to Miss Beri and gave the male members of the act great opportunity. Sam Armstrong and Lee Phelps, . billed as Two Boys from Hollywood, charmed with really pleasant voice and a good seelction of numbers, several of which bore the stamp of the tailor-madThey, as well as Miss Jessie Reed, whose offering was also of a semi-jaz- z variety of popular song, were brought back for the further e. pleasure of the audience. Ernest Hiatt, the only monologist on the bill, uncorked a score of good laughs with his patter. Here, as in the case of Friedland, a severe cold 'worked to the detriment of his offering, but his billing: Nothing Serious, was well justified. Leon & Co., closing the evening, demonstrated several novelties in mystery; the climax, entitled Fire and Water, being an ingenious development of the trunk mystery, which for years has puzzled theatre fans. old-tim- e Jack and Jesse Gibson, opening, gave a neat exhibition of what is possible with both the ordinary and elevated types of monocycle. . PANTAGES PROGRAM IS DELIGHTFULLY VARIED. The program for the week at the Pantages is a most brilliant and catchy affair. It is featuring the best in singing, dancing and a rare picture drama starring Clara Kimball Young. The real headliner of the vaudeville section of the program is Robyn Adair and her Sunkist Serenaders and the feature of the act is Miss Wilma Haaga. Miss. Haaga is but 16 years of age, but she plays before the' footlights with the ease of a veteran and, if her success last night is to be. taken as an indication, Miss Haaga will achieve honors in the field of music. Her principal number is In the Land of Sweet Sixteen. Robyn Adair, who, by the way, manages her own act, is ad ancer of no mean ability. Her offerings are well accepted. Joe Bennett as Abe Kabbible in The Teelphone Tangle, is only a part of g material of the act. the The scene pictured is that of six telephone booths with an inset of a telephone switchboard. If the average person believes that he has a terrible time in getting a telephone connection, Bennett has outdone that belief tenfold in his rollicking comedy success. A bit of eccentric dancing that is a novelty and a delightful touch of entertainment is offered by Conn and Hart. The men have little to say and proceed about their business of successfully presenting their offering to the satisfaction of all. The scenery used in Valentine Foxs presentation of the ventriloauial art is a feature of the number. Fox has placed his act in an exclusive club and uses a dummy made up as a bellhop. Aside from the offerings of the performer, which are pleasing, there is an air of refinement that gives the sketch a peculiarly satisfying effect. laugh-creatin- Phil La Tosca, though boasting relation to the La Tausca pearls gem of entertainment. His antic juggling are laughable and the a ence seems to overlook the B adeptness necessary to perform a of the feats in the consideration of performers talk, which is, like the . funny. Ted Schwab is a banjoist of ab and opens with The National blem, a stirring military select which he renders with apparent e The remainder of his program is q up of popular numbers that find predation with the audience. ELKS STAG SOCIAL. Havin been nishiated by a big cus, with lions, elephunts, gals, everything else, the new home of Lake Elks, No. 85, will be the cei of fun, frolic and frivolity, this urday night, when the antlered will meet in Stag Social. This hummin bee affair will guided by the conscience of those p ent; the says so right in plain print. There will be si py stage stunts and something sides water to drink perhaps gr juice, since Billy Bryan has been 1 e bill-o-far- town. Anyhow it is billed for a real jandrum seance; all the intelligen will be thar and some o the flipj and flappers, to boot. If you 'ei Bill youre invitationed right i without going further. MITZI IN LADY BILLY COMING TO SALT THEATRE LAKE 2 NOVEMBER An old Roumanian castle, a ghost little P echo, and a cess, is the setting for the musical mance in which Henry W. Savage fers the prima donna comedienne zi in her greatest success, Lady Bil at the Salt Lake Theatre, Thursi November 2nd, and for three nigl e poor-but-pret- ty with matinee Saturday. In a series of guises and from ghost of her ancestral gardeners son to boy disguis aunt soprano, H moves from this world scene to a new world Yorks famous Bohemian ter, Greenwich Village. The production of Lady Billy one of the most pretentious sPons0 sea by Henry W. Savage in many as Lady Billy salon-Ne- Q1 l1 and the material provided the star is the best she has had since audiences captivated American Head Sari, Pom Pom and Heels. There is no chorus in Lady but an octette of talented ounS a ties who can sing, dance and a dancers of special quintette And stirring male quartette. and se ling through every scene & i .jj - Rae. Samuels, the blue streak of vaudeville, at the Orpheum next week. of Lady Billy is Mitzi. |